For Weight Loss What’s The Best Type of Cardiovascular Exercise?

For Weight Loss What’s The Best Type of Cardiovascular Exercise?

This is a question I am asked on many occasions, ‘should I do long steady state runs or bike rides or short high intensity bouts’

Well the answer is pretty simple.

Take a look at a marathon runner and you’ll see very little in the way of a shapely muscular physique i.e. Paula Radcliff she’s pretty much straight up and down with little or no curves.

Why?

Well marathon runners like Paula Radcliff do not require any additional muscle bulk to carry over such long distances this would impair there performance.

Take a look at a sprinter or middle distance runner say 800m and you’ll normally see a completely different physique, well toned with varying sizes of muscle bulk.

So to answer the question ‘For Weight Loss What’s the best type of cardiovascular exercise?

They both work, a better question is what shape would you like?

If you’d like the relatively non-athletic shape of a marathon runner, do long bouts of cardiovascular training i.e. cycling at a low intensity level for 50 minutes plus and do very little in the way of weight training

If you’d prefer a more athletic shape of a sprinter or middle distance runner, do short bouts of high intensity cardiovascular training (know as interval training) and use weights for resistance training.

Now before any of you ladies reading this are thinking ‘I don’t want great big muscles’ don’t worry the type of training we recommend will not have you looking like a male body builder with a square jawed female head.

Probably the most exciting thing about training more like a sprinter or middle distance runner is that you’ll quickly increase your metabolism, which means you’ll be burning more calories at rest and during your exercise bouts BONUS! I’d say.

So to quickly summarise to achieve the body shape you want train like those that have the shape you want and match it with good nutrition.

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